{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/btal/trading/","section":"funds","title":"BTAL Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"BTAL trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","as_of":"Sep 10, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/btal/trading/#data","name":"BTAL trading costs and liquidity","description":"BTAL trading costs and liquidity: spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, from ETFIQ. 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Spread, premium to NAV, capacity and dealers, dated.","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/btal/trading/","dateModified":"2026-09-10","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".faq"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":3365,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / BTAL / Trading \n \n As of Sep 10, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.\n BTAL bid-ask spread and liquidity\n IQ Liquidity Score\n Not scored, 1 of 6 measured.\n A fixed 0 to 100 scale of trading conditions, the same anchors for every fund; 100 is the easiest to trade. It measures how cheaply and reliably the fund can be bought and sold, not whether to own it. How the score is built \n Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity Not measured: no book of its holdings is read Price fidelity Not measured: no closing premium is held for this fund Primary market, 85.0 5 active dealers of 14; largest 69% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Jun 30, 2026 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: no daily closing premium is held for this fund Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) \n Capacity\n Not measured: no book of its holdings is read.\n Dealers\n 5 active of 14 authorized participants; the largest did 69% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Jun 30, 2026 (Form N-CEN filed Sep 10, 2026).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: BofA Securities, Inc. (68.6%), Virtu Americas LLC (21.4%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (5.6%), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (4.2%), J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (0.2%). 9 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade BTAL\n When ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last minutes before the close. ETFIQ measures this fund\u2019s own day once it has trade data. Coming with trade data\n Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction\u2019s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data.\n Questions people ask\n Who is the AP for BTAL? BTAL\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Jun 30, 2026, lists 14 authorized participants (APs), and 5 created or redeemed shares. The largest were BofA Securities, Inc. (68.6%), Virtu Americas LLC (21.4%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (5.6%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for BTAL? BTAL\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Virtu Americas LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Jun 30, 2026, accession 0002071691-26-021340.\n Where to next\n BTAL fund page ETF trading costs and liquidity Limit orders vs market orders for ETFs Why low volume does not mean illiquid How the IQ Liquidity Score is built Compare BTAL with another fund The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, BTAL trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Sep 10, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/btal/trading/ Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, BTAL trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Sep 10, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/btal/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Sep 10, 2026). BTAL trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. 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